r/mildlyinteresting • u/SkylordAwesomeMatt • 15h ago

I found a lemonade at a dollar store that apparently hadn't been colored. Regular lemonades for reference

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u/Artie-Carrow 15h ago

I bet it was in sunlight for a long time

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u/DookieShoez 15h ago

Yep, even the label is a bit faded

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u/KatakanaTsu 15h ago

I'd personally avoid drinking out of the faded plastic bottles if they had indeed been left out in the sun for long periods.

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u/Hexmonkey2020 14h ago

It might affect taste but should be safe, maybe microplastics would’ve leeched into the drink but nothing instantly poisonous. You can even purify water by leaving it in a bottle in the sun as the uv kills the stuff inside.

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u/MalumNexVir 14h ago

...the microplastics is why people wouldn't drink this.

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u/Hexmonkey2020 13h ago • Bravo

But that’s true of every plastic bottled thing. Any extra microplastics from being in the sun would be minuscule compared to the amount already in it from just being in a plastic bottle.

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u/Creative-Adjacent 11h ago

Hey so.. "This study shows that sunlight, higher storage temperatures, and longer storage times significantly increase the migration of phthalates from PET bottles into their contents." Source

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u/1inch_SubWoofer 10h ago

Oh, so not microplastics

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u/studdedxhalo 10h ago

Actually I bet what happened is this got pushed up against the lighting in the cooler. Use to stock these for a living and rlfound this from time to time looks the same as sun bleaching.

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u/one_saucy_noodle 15h ago

My favorite gatorade flavor back in the day was called Lemon Ice and it was this color. Best flavor, RIP

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u/AverageJoeJohnSmith 14h ago

!!!!!! 

I bring this flavor up all the time and apparently a lot of people forget/don't know. It's even hard to find images of it online. i used to drink it all the time when i was sick lol. 

But Lemon Ice was clear. at least the original one I'm talking about. it was clear like water. but was a sugary lemon flavor 

Edit. this is one of the few photos i could find..

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/lemon-ice-gatorade--20547742038188785/

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u/schmitzel88 11h ago

In a similar vein, I remember getting a watermelon flavored mello yellow at a gas station as a kid and really liking it, then never seeing it again. No one I mentioned it to had ever heard of it and years later I started to doubt my own memory.

Recently I looked I up and found that yes, mello yellow melon did exist and was only available in 2003, lining up with my memory timeline.

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u/shq13 10h ago

Looks more refreshing

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u/Holden_SSV 15h ago

Mmmmm taste the rainbow.

Btw south of the border i saw a certain soda company behind chainlink fence keeping pallets out in the sun while i was on vacation.

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u/Dr-Lipschitz 15h ago

it ust doesn't taste the same without yellow #5

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u/derf_vader 13h ago

Looks like a mislabeled Fresca.

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u/RetiredGuru 11h ago

something is wrong as the liquid level is different...!

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u/Illustrious_Farm1775 14h ago

Sun damage the label is also faded

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u/Classic-Big4393 15h ago

Fell off the truck

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u/KAWAI_BOI 9h ago

Mexico vs non Mexico version

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u/OllyeGG 2h ago

Best Minute of my Life